This is Science Friday. I'm Iroflato. A bit later in the hour, we'll talk to John Urchall, who went from pro footballer to MIT Math PhD student.

We'll talk about his passion for math. But first, a green wave is sweeping through Washington, and it's picking up lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are eager to share their ideas on clean energy and climate change.

We know the climate's changing and the global industrial activity has played a role in this phenomenon.

So I proposed a new Manhattan project for clean energy, to clean up our air, to raise family incomes, and to deal with climate change.

Our military does not have the luxury of an academic debate about climate change.

They must respond to the reality that we face today, and so should the United States Congress.

Think those are all Democrats? You'd be wrong. All three of them, Republicans. That was Oklahoma

Representative Frank Lucas, followed by Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander, and finally, Florida

Representative Matt Gates, all Republicans, all talking about climate change. But even as

Republican lawmakers present their ideas and get involved in climate

policy, the White House is doubling down on climate denial, forming a climate review panel,

as they call it, to vet and discredit the already peer-reviewed science on climate change.

The panel's leader is William Happer, a physicist who has said that

carbon dioxide has been unfairly demonized, comparing it to the Holocaust, quote, the demonization

of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler. Some comparison.

Happer declined an invitation to join us today.

But here with me now are Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist and founder and CEO of the

consulting firm Ocean Collective.

She's also founder of the nonprofit Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for coastal cities.

Welcome to Science Friday.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, thank you, Dr. Johnson.

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